Blink

[gregorkas]

I just had to try marquee :D

https://www.google.com/search?q=%3Cmarquee%3E&safe=off

[malka]

https://www.google.com/search?q=%3Cblink%3E#q=facebook

You can make it work with any keyword ;)

[davidw]

Heh, that was the first thing I tried too. It works.

[hpaavola]

https://www.google.com/search?q=ling+rush

[grimtrigger]

Ha, at first I thought I was being attacked by Opera's logo

[ArcticCelt]

Can I fight back?

[eglover]

Fun game!

[riquito]

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%3Cblink%3E

I wasn't really expecting an easter egg, but was surprised to not find a single result about html. Does it strip any non alphabetic character?

[nevi-me]

I did a \<blink\> trying to see what DDG would do, and it keeps sending me to some blinkfitness.com website. Anyone know what action backslashes add?

[chrisdevereux]

I wonder if searching for "onScroll" in 10 years will trigger a similar easter egg.

[batmansbelt]

People will probably still be using mice for input. It won't be all swiping by 2014. The nice thing about a mouse is that it requires very little effort. It takes a lot more muscle movement to perform a swipe.

[gonehome]

This comes up occasionally, but the history of the blink tag and how it was created from a joke is actually pretty cool.

http://www.montulli.org/theoriginofthe%3Cblink%3Etag

[MrBuddyCasino]

But is it milspec (3 units on, 1 unit off timing)?

I can't tell from the pixels and the CSS. Required reading: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=213625

[ankit84]

It's not just blink keywrod. Happening for anything: https://www.google.com/search?q=%3Cblink%3E#q=%3CGOOGLE%3E

[user24]

Incorrect. You're only getting the blinking because <blink> is still in the URL.

compare your link to mine: https://www.google.com/search?q=%3CGOOGLE%3E&safe=off

This is probably a bug.

Same applies for the [tilt] query, eg: https://www.google.com/search?q=tilt&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8#q=goo...

[m_st]

Funny. But my favorite is still "do a barrel roll": https://google.com/search?q=do+a+barrel+roll

[jgroome]

Might as well remind everyone of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_hoaxes_and_easte...

[Systemic33]

This combination is really evil: https://www.google.com/search?q=tilt#q=ocd

[thatjoist]

https://www.google.com.au/search?q=recursion

Did you mean: recursion

[pliu]

Works on a phone too. "ok google, do a barrel roll".

[m_st]

This query shouldn't work in Firefox 23+, no? https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/bl...

[DangerousPie]

It's not actually a blink tag but CSS:

    em {
    animation: 1s steps(1, end) 0s normal none infinite blink;
    }

[jsahdeva]

Blinks this too https://www.google.com/search?q=%3Cblink%3E#q=%3CMarquee%3E

[heeton]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7948930

Unfortunate side effect of their incremental search system :P

[eelke]

https://www.google.com/search?q=recursion

[dang]

A dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7280783.

[vidyesh]

Try this <marquee>

https://www.google.com/#q=<marquee>

[smegel]

Am I the only one not getting this? Is it supposed to make me want to blink along with it? What's the point?

[deadfish]

You are either too young or not a web developer :D

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/bl...

[jgroome]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blink_element

[kevin818]

Someone should make a list of all the little tricks you can use on Google, or any other site for that matter.

[vladimir-vg]

Also "tilt" query

[btown]

Makes you wonder how much energy is used, and how much carbon is produced, by every frontend server for Google Web Search in every Google datacenter needing to (at the very least) do an extra string comparison for every search done.

[rsynnott]

Compared to the power used by the client computers dealing with Google's increasingly heavy search pages? Pretty much nothing.

[smackfu]

They clearly already have a very extensible framework to give different results page formats depending on the search term.

[McDiesel]

It appears to be implemented in JS... so... none?

[squigs25]

just add an extra node to their cluster